Updated and Optimized Ubuntu Free Graphics Drivers

[ausymark]

Firstly thanks oibaf for your excellent work over the years

Now onto the buglett:
Running Messa 17.4 Podaka PPA under Ubuntu 17.10 using AMD/ATI video card (RX 480) and an AMD Ryzen 1700. (Though I'm sure its a graphics driver/system related issue, not a CPU issue) This is an OpenCL error. Seti@home, via BOINC, using proprietary AMDGPU-Pro drivers for OpenCL, works as expected so it is likely that there is either a bug, or something unfinished, in the Open Source OpenCL driver that is failing. As a side note, in 2015 this issue hit the nVidia side of things generating this issue: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/forum...=77133#1665089 This might give you an idea of what may be occurring in the AMD / OpenCL driver side of things. I have also reported the issue over at bugs.freedesktop.org I am reporting the bug here as well as I know key stakeholders are here. I hope it is an easy fix Cheers

[oibaf]

I added to mesa a patch Intel sent me to enable i965 shader cache by default. If you find any issues post it here.

[Xzuukh]

Looks like the issue with libdrm-common might be back:

Preparing to unpack .../libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x_i386.deb ...
De-configuring libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 (2.4.83-1~16.04.1) ...
Unpacking libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 (2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x) over (2.4.83-1~16.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package libdrm-common 2.4.83-1~16.04.1
Preparing to unpack .../libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 (2.4.83-1~16.04.1) ...
Unpacking libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 (2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x) over (2.4.83-1~16.04.1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package libdrm-common 2.4.83-1~16.04.1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu9) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1712180630.831036~oibaf~x_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[Dukenukemx]

Having problems with the PPA and I did a ppa-purge to fix held back packages and now getting this when I try to reinstall Oibaf PPA.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libllvm5.0 libllvm5.0:i386 libsensors4:i386
The following packages have been kept back:
  libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa:i386 libgbm1 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
  libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386
  libglapi-mesa libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386
  libwayland-egl1-mesa
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1
  libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1
  libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2 libdrm2:i386 libegl1-mesa-drivers
  libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-cursor0:i386 libwayland-server0
  libwayland-server0:i386 libxatracker2 libxfont1 mesa-common-dev
  mesa-va-drivers:i386 mesa-vdpau-drivers xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
  xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  xserver-xorg-video-radeon

I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 and I fear that if I continue I would not be able to boot into the Cinnamon UI. I know Mint is a bit different in how it handles these things. What's going on?

[groo_pcd]

Having problems with the PPA and I did a ppa-purge to fix held back packages and now getting this when I try to reinstall Oibaf PPA.

The following NEW packages will be installed:
libllvm5.0 libllvm5.0:i386 libsensors4:i386
The following packages have been kept back:
libegl1-mesa libegl1-mesa:i386 libgbm1 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386
libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386
libglapi-mesa libgles1-mesa libgles2-mesa libosmesa6 libosmesa6:i386
libwayland-egl1-mesa
The following packages will be upgraded:
libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1
libdrm-intel1:i386 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-nouveau2:i386 libdrm-radeon1
libdrm-radeon1:i386 libdrm2 libdrm2:i386 libegl1-mesa-drivers
libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-cursor0:i386 libwayland-server0
libwayland-server0:i386 libxatracker2 libxfont1 mesa-common-dev
mesa-va-drivers:i386 mesa-vdpau-drivers xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
xserver-xorg-video-radeon

I'm using Linux Mint 18.3 and I fear that if I continue I would not be able to boot into the Cinnamon UI. I know Mint is a bit different in how it handles these things. What's going on?

from padoka ppa:

=== Revert to original drivers (ALWAYS REVERT TO THE ORIGINAL DRIVERS WHEN CHANGING BETWEEN PADOKA PPAs OR REMOVING PADOKA ENTIRELY===
To revert to standard Ubuntu drivers type the following in a prompt shell:
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppaaulo-miguel-dias/mesa

to Mint users (info provided by Tomasz Molin)

If you're on Linux Mint and you want to ppa-purge, you need to specify the corresponding Ubuntu version of your version of Mint.

For example, Linux Mint 18 is xenial xerus.

So, the command would be:

sudo ppa-purge -d xenial ppaaulo-miguel-dias/mesa

enjoy

[Dukenukemx]

from padoka ppa:

=== Revert to original drivers (ALWAYS REVERT TO THE ORIGINAL DRIVERS WHEN CHANGING BETWEEN PADOKA PPAs OR REMOVING PADOKA ENTIRELY===
To revert to standard Ubuntu drivers type the following in a prompt shell:
$ sudo apt-get install ppa-purge
$ sudo ppa-purge ppaaulo-miguel-dias/mesa

to Mint users (info provided by Tomasz Molin)

If you're on Linux Mint and you want to ppa-purge, you need to specify the corresponding Ubuntu version of your version of Mint.

For example, Linux Mint 18 is xenial xerus.

So, the command would be:

sudo ppa-purge -d xenial ppaaulo-miguel-dias/mesa

enjoy

Already did that. I'm running neither Padoka or Oibaf PPA's. I'm trying to install Oibaf and that's what I get. What's keeping those packages held back?

[Dukenukemx]

Oibaf must have fixed the held back packages but when I did install the drivers I get this error. I've also tried sudo apt clean and this still happens.

Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[oibaf]

Dukenukemx I didn't do any changes to packages recently (other than updating code from git), I would suppose this is likely an issue related to Mint having slightly different packages from Ubuntu.

Also to zesty / 17.04 users: the distro is EOL, you should upgrade to artful. Before upgrade make sure to remove the PPA packages, then upgrade the distro, then add again the PPA.

[Dukenukemx]

oibaf so what fixed it? Also still having this problem.

sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-amdgpu1:i386
2 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 34 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 60.3 kB of archives.
After this operation, 34.8 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu xenial/main i386 libdrm-amdgpu1 i386 2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x [31.9 kB]
Get:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/oibaf/graphics-drivers/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libdrm-amdgpu1 amd64 2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x [28.4 kB]
Fetched 60.3 kB in 0s (105 kB/s)          
(Reading database ... 446536 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_amd64.deb ...
De-configuring libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 (2.4.67-1) ...
Unpacking libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 (2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x) over (2.4.67-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package libdrm-common 2.4.83-1~16.04.1
Preparing to unpack .../libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_i386.deb ...
De-configuring libdrm-amdgpu1:amd64 (2.4.67-1) ...
Unpacking libdrm-amdgpu1:i386 (2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x) over (2.4.67-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/libdrm/amdgpu.ids', which is also in package libdrm-common 2.4.83-1~16.04.1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu10) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_amd64.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libdrm-amdgpu1_2.4.89+git1801190630.3509e7~oibaf~x_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[oibaf]

Likely some incompatibility between packages. Try to manually remove the two installed packages without touching their dependencies, then reinstall from the PPA.